The Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II through the use of firsthand accounts.

Selected digitized articles from the The San Francisco News during the relocation and internment period.

Comprehensive collection of primary sources, oral histories, images, and more.

Primary sources include photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories detailing the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps.

This searchable collection of over 200 photographs from the Los Angeles Examiner documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II.

Official website of Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese American photographer living in Manzanar during the 1940s.

Gallery of photos of Manzanar by notable photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers and Francis Stewart.

During WWII, 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into camps, a government action that still haunts victims and their descendants

A look at Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi's hope to start an arts-and-crafts program at the Poston War Relocation Center, which could be replicated in the other camps. Such a program, he thought, would not only provide training opportunities for internees but make life more bearable in the desert.

Seventy years after the mass internment of Japanese Americans was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the ugly ideas at the core of its decision are resurfacing.

At the desert site of an internment camp in California, an 86-year-old man leads tours of what was home to him and 10,000 other Japanese-Americans during World War II.